News Release

Oracle Team USA, for which Yanmar Co., Ltd. serves as a technical partner, won 3^rd place in the Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Fukuoka held from November 19 (Sat.) to 20 (Sun.) offshore of Jigyohama, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture.

The America's Cup is a yacht race where teams of cutting edge racing boats crewed by the best sailors in the world compete for the "America's Cup", the oldest, continually in use international sports championship trophy in the world. The World Series Fukuoka was a close battle, with Oracle Team USA acquiring 70 points and placing 3^rd in the results. This places the team 2^nd overall with 493 points total for the entire 9 races of the World Series that have been carried out in various countries all over the world. The team will aim for its 3^rd championship in the final of the 35^th America's Cup in the British Territory of Bermuda in June 2017.

For this World Series, Yanmar supported Oracle Team USA as they make their bid for the championship to be held in Bermuda, with Yanmar providing 8LV diesel engines and ZT drive systems for the chase boats which play an important support role traveling side-by-side with the race boats.

Comments from Oracle Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill

Fukuoka has been a wonderful venue for the competition, with large numbers of children and other fans cheering us on, and I hope we can come back and race here again someday. We now want to put all of our effort into preparing for the Bermuda race that we have to win, with Yanmar as our technical partner working together with the team engineers and designers towards ensuring our victory in the final.

＜About Yanmar＞

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